[CPEO-MEF] Shpack Landfill (MA) cancer study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer study ready on Shpack landfill
By Heather Graf, GUEST COLUMNIST
Norton Mirror (MA)
January 5, 2007

At the request of the Citizens Advisory Shpack Team and urging from our 
elected officials -— particularly Congressman Barney Frank, the 
Massachusetts Department of Public Health agreed in 2002 to conduct an 
evaluation of cancer incidence in Norton and Attleboro, within a 
one-mile radius of the Shpack Superfund site.

For those unfamiliar with its location or history, the Shpack Site is on 
Union Road, the street which connects South Worcester Street in Norton 
(near the Chartley Fire House) and Peckham Street in Attleboro. The 
approximate 10-acre site, mostly in Norton, with 2 1/2 acres over the 
Attleboro line, was a privately owned dump (named after its owner 
Isadore Shpack) which accepted radiological, chemical and all other 
manner of industrial and residential waste between 1946 and 1965. Site 
investigations began back in 1978 after an area resident detected 
elevated levels of radioactivity there.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.townonline.com/norton/opinion/8999023943943716863

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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